Because past-life regression, theology, metaphysics, spirituality and psychology all seem rolled into one for me, I often assume an ingrained need for the philosophical understandings of life must be inherent in all other free thinking renaissance souls. Am I wrong?

I wanted to find out, so a few months ago, on a quest to connect with the typical mindset on such matters, I began to ask selected reincarnation/past-life regression questions in a casual verbal survey format. How did people feel and think about past-life regression? Did any aspect of it need demystifying?

I started on friends and acquaintances, obviously because we had already established a comfort zone that would allow the imposition of such fundamental belief questions. Yet that contradicted my reason for the survey.

I realized I would have to ask strangers in coffee shops, at parks, waiting in line at the supermarket; anywhere I could casually strike up a conversation. The challenge of it all was not lost on me.

What I noticed was a slight difference in participation and answers from those in regular grocery stores, compared to those in health food supermarkets, from those all alone, compared to those in group settings, but all in all my sampling proved fairly consistent, and ultimately fair. I believed, as psychologist Morris Netherton did, that “it is impossible to influence or lead people to something that doesn’t jibe with their own feelings.” I was going for their truth, if they would share it.

I admit I expected to find some interested, and therefore interesting, people. The questions, I believed, would lead to some stimulating conversation, perhaps spark an untapped insight, surprising not only myself, but the interviewee as well  - (for although the popularity of religions seems to be at one of its low points in history, the interest in spirituality has risen considerably. It seems that once people accepted the idea that they alone could be responsible for their own spiritual and personal growth, they seemed to soar to new heights, interested not just in theology, but in metaphysics, the healing arts, eastern mysticism, etc.) 

The group of people I eventually gleamed information from, proved to be indeed, an interesting bunch. I sincerely attempted to survey half men and half women, and I was surprised to find equal numbers of both who were unwilling to partake in the study. Thus my results still indicate a relatively even ratio of female/male responses.

Aside from that minor background, I neither looked at, nor noted, any other discernible, distinguishing classifications. I readily transferred my received answers into a spreadsheet (I’m anal that way) and carried over as many comments as I could write down at the time. Often I found myself writing frantically as more than one person at a public coffee table wanted to add their comments to those already being written down. LOVED their enthusiasm once they got going.

The survey sparked interest at first, I believe, only for the fact that I was conducting a public survey, yet the answers I received were intelligent and well thought out – their obvious references seemingly blogs, chat shows, popular magazines, books and second hand stories.

Want to hear what I heard? Check in next week!

Much in the world has now been written and published on reincarnation. The 60’s saw an emergence of books dealing with specific cases, recorded as mystifying and often sensationalized or ridiculed. 

In the 70’s, we finally found books published by professionals, journalists and psychologists. The 80’s gave rise to an even larger quota of published works, written by professionals and laymen alike, hoping to simplify, sometimes magnify, but still often eluding the average person.

Since the 90’s we have seen the increase in the growing popularity of reincarnation and past-life regression therapy. Authors are appearing on television interview shows, presenting their views and debating their case. You tube reveals clips of actual regressions. Viewers divide up, for and against, believers and non-believers, thinkers and non-thinkers. Cases of reported and recorded experiences have escalated. Books reporting their experiences are rising on bestsellers lists across the country, and holding on to the number one spot for endless weeks. Blogs are written, mainstream psychologists, psychiatrists, and other therapists are traveling across the world presenting seminars and workshops, and authors are touring, attracting crowds who desire more, need more, want more…. 

Past-life regression therapy is emerging, and is not being beaten down. It is rising in popularity, in exposure, and infiltrating the minds that pose the question: is there more to life than this?

But who are these people that exhibit a spark of interest, of curiosity, of recognition? What do they want to know? What questions do they have? What answers do they need? There is now a lot of information out there for the reading/viewing public: where do they start?

In my private practice, more and more of my clients book a session and merely want to ask questions, searching for answers. I communicate with them individually, shaping my information to suit their level of need and existing knowledge. They always want to know more, so I recommend books, experiences, blog postings.

I find myself talking to so many people on a daily basis, whether in a network group, a coffee shop, a sports event, or anywhere my occupation might be brought up in conversation. Talking about it with strangers or acquaintances often brings up the same type of very innocent, very unabashed questions. Unfortunately these are neither well thought out nor cushioned with intelligence, for the most part. I have paid attention to these questions for quite awhile, acknowledging that they are often repeated in different circles. These are not the questions a therapist might put together to “answer any questions you may have” regarding past-life regression therapy. These are the actual laymen queries and comments that I hear at every encounter.

Demystifying past-life regression therapy is truly an essential task. This is my small attempt to clarify and substantiate it, in relative terms.  Thanks for coming along for the ride. 

************I believe the world is rapidly advancing. There is a huge shift toward energy work and spiritually-based solutions to our problems and needs. These non-traditional methods have the depth necessary.  My belief and experience tells me that this is because many of the issues manifesting today are on a soul level. We need to go deeper than ever before to places and spaces and realms clinical methodologies can’t touch. 

For the last few decades I have been developing, testing, and perfecting a level of spiritual meditation-based past-life regression therapy that I believe is beyond anything else I have seen. I offer this knowledge in a 10-course training called Hindsight.

If you are interested in this training, it’s probably because there is a soul-awakening happening: a soul-level recognition of a sense of purpose and promise. Trust it. I did.        More information can be found here.

There are always corporations and institutions that wield their powerful swords and create politically generated changes in the masses.  But what happens if necessary powerful changes are not forthcoming?

Nutritional changes such as vegetarianism, organic food, sustainability, etc., have taken decades to battle and squeeze a position in the mass consciousness. Chiropractors, acupuncturists, astrologers (to name a few) have been unfortunately labeled quacks for years, but when former American president Richard Nixon mentioned acupuncture and president Ronald Reagan admitted to astrological guidance, a few chinks in the armor let in a bit more light.

I believe in past-life regression for therapy, curiosity or empowerment. That reincarnation and past-life regression can actually promise and deliver on these three is outstanding. As Dr. Bruce Goldberg writes in Past Lives, Future Lives: “The most important benefit of regression therapy is not the retelling of scenes from past lives. It is a change in perspectives on life, an enlightenment as to who you are and what you are suppose to be doing here.”

Most of the authors of the popular past-life regression books in the last 20+ years have either been psychologists, psychiatrists, or other private practitioners. Each has adopted past-life regression therapy as an essential part of their practice, often after years of disbelief. It generally took one client to unblock their disbelief, or open up and confirm a belief, and then the ensuing networking chain of client to practitioner word-of-mouth referrals begins.

Now there are a far greater number of practitioners who believe first in past-life regression, and then studied and passed on the value and virtues to their clients. Used as therapy, it is believed that past-life regression can only enhance a practice.

We must find a way to keep practicing past-life regression to any and all who believe in its value, and only hope that sooner or later the realization of the power of past-life regression will finally be felt by enough people to give it the acclamation it so deserves. 

From an early age, I believed in past-life regression as a panacea for the masses. I was always drawn toward a powerful belief in it, so the work I chose to do seems all empowering to me. It answers such fundamental questions such as "Who am I?" and "What is my purpose?", and opens up possibilities at the same time. My mind attempts to imagine infinity and feels a connection, a belonging.

I have a need to let others remember, as I have done, yet those who wish to journey within, are often not clear on why, how, or where past-life regression therapy affects their current life. So I start by letting them know what Dr. Edith Fiore brilliantly stated years ago: "There is not one aspect of character or human behaviour that cannot be understood through an examination of past-life events....for we are the sum total of all that we have been before." My chosen field of work is therefore vital, alive and beneficial to all.

When Dr. Denys Kelsey and his prolific wife Joan Grant wrote the book, Many Lifetimes, in 1967, it brought past-life regression to a cultural awareness level. Since then, more and more prestigious medical doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other practitioners, researchers and laymen have contributed their experiences to the masses. Belief in reincarnation rose from 20-30 percent from 1970-1980, and then another 15% in the next decade, with one third of all adult women professing to be believers.

Yet still, the mention of past-life regression has that unmistakeable hush in a crowd. Eyebrows go up, debaters take aim, a few whisper snide remarks, and very little awareness, much less enlightenment, has ever been achieved. I know. I continue to experience those reactions in the 21st century.

I believe past-life regression is not a fringe interest, but rather an obvious branch, and therefore extension of psychology, theology, and medicine. I like the way author Karl Schlotterbeck explains its role in society: "It appears that past-life therapists are, in the truest sense of the word, the best current expressions of ministers and psychotherapists - caretakers of the soul."

But past-life regression therapy has been kept in the wrong closet for too many years. It's association with other non-mainstream practices keeps it akin to an old-fashioned parlor game in the minds of many. Connected so strongly to hypnosis, it still bears the impressions of all the old, badly made movies and ghost stories of Hollywood's earlier years.

I'm going to blog more about past-life regression history, its power, and its potential, in the weeks and months to come. I want to go from "I don't believe in past-life regression" to "Why does my teenager know more about this that I do?" to "I don't understand what karma is" to "How can this help my relationship?" to "What happens in a session?" to "Was I really there?"  

Join me if you're ready to take past-life regression seriously. (And if you're interested in training to become a past-life practitioner too, here's all the details.)

If you're feeling like hunkering down and watching some movies - but don't feel like the classic Christmas tales, then here's a list for you....

People are always asking me (and telling me) about time travel and past life movies. "Have you seen...?"  "What would you recommend...?"  So I put together this very incomplete top 10 list. It's enough for a start though...

#10 - 12 Monkeys. 1996. Terry Gilliam. Travelling 'into the past' to change future outcome.
#9 - Timeline. 2003. Richard Donner. Novel by Michael Crichton.
#8 - Deju Vu. 2006. Denzel Washington. Jim Caviezel. Four and a half days in time. 
#7 - Frequency. 2000. Dennis Quaid. Jim Caviezel (again). 30 year timespan connecting father and son in NYC.
#6 - Premonition. 2007. Sandra Bullock. A week in time, in scrambled sequence.
#5 - The Philadelphia Experiment. 1984. Based on an actual event from 1943 that "sent" two men 40 years into the future.
#4 - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. 1986. Two words: humpback whales.
#3 - Star Trek: First Contact. 1996. Another "traveling into the past to change future outcome". 
#2 - are my 4 favourite romantic love stories, lumped together. (Yes that's cheating. It's my list.) 
Somewhere In Time. 1980. Jane Seymour. Christopher Reeve. Self-hypnosis.
Late For Dinner. 1991. Peter Gallagher.
Kate & Leopold. 2001. Meg Ryan. Hugh Jackman.
The Fountain. 2006. Hugh Jackman (again). Deep and rich, spanning 3 lifetimes of a couple.

and #1 - Groundhog Day. 1994. Bill Murray. Karma: Repeating to gain higher consciousness.

Now what will you rent this weekend? (You're welcome.)

In 1961, Ian Stevenson, a Canadian chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, began investigating cases of very young children who claimed to remember past lives.

These children began to speak spontaneously about another life, persisting with their claims until their family eventually made efforts to locate the family of the life the child was describing. 

In most cases, their efforts were successful, and the child would then meet the family. At those meetings, the child would often identify members of the previous family as well as items belonging to the deceased individual. Those family members confirmed both the details of the previous personality's life that were relevant, as well as any recognitions or information that the child demonstrated when the two families met.

Ian Stevenson discovered that these stories, or cases, were fairly easy to find in many parts of the world, especially in Asia, so he eventually left his position as departmental chairman to pursue this research full time.

Until passing just a few years ago, he and other researchers collected over 2,500 cases of children claiming to remember previous lives.

The past lives of the children he found and wrote about had ordinary family lives with routine jobs. No child claimed to have been a famous person. The children had great emotion when they talked about the previous life, often crying or getting angry. The greater percentage of the children described their death in the previous life as a violent one. And those that did, showed a phobia of the instrument of that death - such as fear of water, knives, heights, etc.

The average interval between the death of the previous personality and the birth of the child was around 15 months. And the children almost always started talking about their previous lives between the ages of 2 and 5 years old.

They almost always stopped talking about their previous lives between the ages of 5 and 8, which is generally the age when children branch out from the family and begin school - the age children tend to lose early childhood memories.

I have worked with many children's past lives over my years as a regression therapist. And I assist you in working with YOUR child.

Two of my favourite books by Ian Stevenson are Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation and Children Who Remember Previous Lives. My favourite book by colleague Carol Bowman is Children's Past Lives.

The other day I was telling a client that some of my favourite business conversations are with cosmetic surgeons.

When we compare notes, we realize we share the exact same experience with our clients, in that we support them in realizing their very best. And we also have a huge undertaking in managing their expectations. Two very important tasks.

Why? Because both the realm of regression therapy and cosmetic surgery seem rather mysterious, magical - even mystical. Therefore, once clients close their eyes, they believe when they open them, their LIVES will be changed.

But that's not accurate. The POTENTIAL of their lives will be changed. They are the same person, even with changes in their body or their perspective or their emotions. And it's these changes that give them back their power, so THEY can create a different future.

If you close your eyes, that doesn't mean when you open them, your greatest wish will come true. If you close your eyes and undergo regression or cosmetic surgical work, it means the realization of what's been blocking you has now been exposed, and you are free to create the life you truly desire with much love and compassion for yourself.

I love to work with clients who understand how open and liberating it is to gain that expanded knowledge of all that they are, so they can use the best of their unblocked energies to create a magical life. I just facilitate the potential.

If you want to go time traveling (and really, who doesn't?), I'd love to hook you up. You can travel to the past, the future, and even sideways in the present.

You can make a connection to your past for pure exploration, for therapeutic value or to gain direct empowerment.  You can connect to the spirit of loved ones who has passed on: a family member, friend, even a pet, or the spirit of an unborn child. 

You can revisit childhood memories (especially the ones you've forgotten), or your impressions of being in your mother's womb. You can re-experience a significant and relevant past-life for the benefits it gives you in your current life. 

Or you can choose to connect to your future. You can connect to the soul of a desired child, a future mate, or a potential business partner. You can see the unfolding of your potential life - based on your current energetic conditionings and choices. You can seek to experience your future lives.

Or you can go sideways in your current life and seek out an experience of a parallel life. (Can you get your head wrapped around that one?) You can establish a relationship with your personal spirit guide or guides. You can communicate with the angelic realm in all its forms. (Channeling falls into this category.) And you can understand something in your life through the use and description of metaphors and analogies. 

Trust me, the list goes on....

2 for 1 past/present/future 90-min sessions on till Dec 21st. 

So often I hear others lamenting: "My relationship just doesn't seem to work, but I love him! I don't get it!"

Much of the metaphysical knowledge you have helps you to make the connection between what you see and what you don't. Between what you can prove and what you must trust. And of course, what you logically understand and what you intuitively believe.

When significant events and their emotional reactions happen in your life, you store them bio-chemically and electro-magnetically in every cell of your body - organs, muscles, bones, all of it. Every single thing that has ever happened to you is still inside you. Every thought, every action, every feeling, is held in check, filed by emotion.

When you have life experiences you don't know how to process, you learn to stuff them inside. And it all just heaps up.

But what you also have within you is the inner wisdom that knows what you don't see, what you can't prove and what you intuitively believe.

Past-life therapy is the bridge that allows you to ask and listen inside yourself. The process guides you to your inner resources, your memories, your knowledge, and allows you to release those emotions and beliefs that have manifested in a way that does not serve you.

It doesn't seem to matter what you seek past-life therapy understanding for. I have seen it work its magic on everything: fears and anxieties, insomnia, headaches and migraines, backaches, allergies, acne, bad breath, cancer, depression, sensitivities,  overwhelm, over-drinking, overeating, fatigue, sexual problems, that stuck feeling, needing to go forward, needing to find love, complacency, sabotaging, job lose, financial strife, lack of abundance.... the list goes on.

Whether the issue is emotional, physical, internal or seemingly external, it is always there as a gift. And this gift can wake you up at your core. I have witnessed clients reaching new levels of joy in their life. New feelings of worthiness, of authenticity, of self-love. Spiritual growth at its finest.